This Janelle Monáe song is from last year but I just listened to it for the first time in ages. I had forgotten how good it was – and the video rocks as well.
Posts Tagged ‘music’
Tightrope- Janelle Monáe
Posted in What I'm listening to, tagged Janelle Monae, music, music video, Tightrope on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My May 2011
Posted in Diary, tagged art, books, movies, music, my diary, theatre on June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Around New York High Line – disused railway line turned into an urban park above the streets of the city 32 mile walk around the shoreline of Manhattan – totally worth the effort Art Picasso and Marie-Marie-Thérèse , L’Amour Fou (The Gagosian Gallery, Chelsea) – a visual love letter Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from [...]
The Transfinite
Posted in My photos, What I'm looking at, tagged art, music, My photos, Park Avenue Armory, Ryoji Ikeda on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To me, the purest beauty is the world of mathematics. Its perfect assemblage of numbers, magnitudes and forms persist, independent of us. The aesthetic experience of the sublime in mathematics is awe-inspiring. It is similar to the experience we have when we confront the vast magnitude of the universe, which always leaves us open-mouthed. Ryoji [...]
My April 2011
Posted in Diary, tagged art, books, movies, music, my diary, theatre on May 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Books The Hunger Games trilogy (Suzanne Collins) : intelligent young adult books which topically highlight the impact of war and violence on children Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule The World (William Cohan): for those interested in finance, an absorbing 600+ pages on the investment bank One of Our Thursdays is Missing [...]
Aphrodite Kylie
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged Kylie Minogue, music on May 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is in honour of the fabulous Kylie Minogue who I saw in New York last night : I love that she fully acknowledges her past, performing her first hits such as Locomotion from back in 1987. Who would have imagined that she would transform into the artistic goddess that she has become – a [...]
My March 2011
Posted in Diary, tagged art, books, movies, music, my diary, theatre on April 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Art German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse (MOMA) : has become one of my all-time favourite exhibitions Infinite Variety : Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts (American Folk Art Museum) : quilts as modern art Books Super Sad True Love Story (Gary Shteyngart) : super sad and frightening view of a future digital world Suits: [...]
Spem in alium
Posted in What I'm listening to, tagged Magnificat, music, Spem in alium, The Great Courses, Thomas Tallis on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Being musical is one of the many talents that I do not have. So in order to learn more I have been working through The Great Courses’ How to Listen to and Understand Great Music. The lectures by Professor Robert Greenberg make the subject so approachable that I have unexpectedly become a huge fan of [...]
Strong women
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged Mary J Blige, music on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“For every good woman out here that can’t be held down. She keeps her house together, she keeps her mind together, she keeps her family together. She’s beautiful, she’s strong. And you’re that woman, and nobody can break you down!” – Mary J Blige In honour of one of my favourite singers who was fantastic [...]
The Jazz Age
Posted in My photos, What I'm watching, tagged Governors Island, Jazz Age Lawn Party, music, My photos, New York on September 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I visited Governors Island for the first time for a Jazz Age Lawn Party hosted by Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra. As you can see some people totally got into the spirit of things:
New Orleans in New York
Posted in My photos, What I'm listening to, tagged Hurricane Katrina, Lincoln Center, music, My photos, New Orleans, New York on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Lincoln Center is not normally a place I associate with a dance party but last Sunday the place went wild at an outdoor concert commemorating the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I don’t think there was a single person who stayed sitting down instead of getting up on their feet to dance. A friend [...]
